3-082-964 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Opening of the Baltic Canal: the high-level railway bridge at Levensau, while under construction, August 1894, (1895). Illustration from a '...Supplement commemorative of the opening of the Baltic [or Kiel] Canal'. The 98-kilometer-long (61 mile) freshwater canal links the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. It runs through the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, from Brunsbüttel, at the mouth of the Elbe, to Holtenau, on the Kiel Fjord. It was constructed between 1887 and 1895. The Levensau High Bridge, built in 1894, is a high level arch bridge. It is the oldest bridge crossing the Kiel Canal. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.